Monthly Archive: November 2001

How the BBC Liberated Kabul

Guy throws dishwater down drain, SWAT team and armed FBI crash down his door, arrest him and his wife, indict them before a grand jury. This is a crazy time.

Rotten had this great story. That $20K truffle was almost bought by people representing Gunther the Fourth, a German Shephard dog that inherited around $50m, now owns $150m, and last year bought Madonna’s old...

Bin Laden’s recruiting videos are all glitzy, MTV-style, and use catchy pop music.

Taliban recruit new suicide fighters to go after Bush

Irish Times on the similarities and differences between Taliban and Northern Alliance occupations of Kabul.

In wartime there’s nothing a country needs more for morale than heroes. The conventional thinking is that Flight 93, the Al Qaeda-hijackied airliner that crashed in a field in Philadelphia, was brought down by...

Oh great! New simulations confirm the hypothesis that melting glacier runoff does in fact divert the Gulf Stream for several centuries, producing a paradoxically freezing winter temperatures in Northern Europe during inter-glacial periods. There...

The Carlyle Group counts Bush Snr, John Major, and various other ex-despots and autocratic apparatchiks on its board. It “advises” governments and companies about world events. The Bin Laden family pay it scadloads of...

“The (ultra-Orthodox) stole our country which used to be a social-democracy where religion played a tiny part,” said Tzvi, a secular Beit Shemesh resident. “If they had guns, we would call them the Taliban....